Law and Crime

Best Ideas

  1. Only fines for criminals
  2. Photos wanted on cheques and credit cards
  3. Over-25 car window stickers to deter car thieves
  4. Electronic tagging in practice
  5. More lawyers, less work, more mediation
  6. Justice by random arbitration
  7. Creative sentencing in California
  8. Tonglen meditation in prison
  9. Concealing crime victims' addresses
  10. Differential needed between robbery and murder
  11. Nuremberg trial for cigarette manufacturers

Social Inventions

  1. Judge lets victims take from burglars' homes
  2. Holistic Lawyers
  3. Rent-a-dog for joggers
  4. Free transmitter alarms for battered women
  5. Recidivism rate cut from 70% to 10%
  6. Prisons earn more if recidivism cut
  7. A prison magazine with 200,000 circulation
  8. Exploiting similarities between crime and drama

Book of Visions

  1. Terrorists with neutron bombs?
  2. Prison incentives in the 18th century
  3. Prisons as ashrams
  4. The Human Kindness Foundation
  5. Prisoners as firemen
  6. Prisoners training dogs for the disabled
  7. Helping prisoners escape
  8. Prisoners translating books
  9. Delinquents into donors
  10. The Guardian Angels
  11. Tube Guardians given half-price season tickets
  12. No riots in small prisons
  13. Small- scale borstal
  14. Ha-Has round jails
  15. Getting help from police stations
  16. Police in wheelchairs
  17. Cardboard police
  18. Language is as individual as fingerprints
  19. Libel in county courts
  20. Glowing disc to cut car theft
  21. The anti-bike thief box
  22. Legalising trade in marijuana seeds only
  23. Community or Penitence Stamps

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